The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-05-12
A SUBURBAN HOTEL.
AN ENTERPRISE THAT WOULD
PAWN THE TwIN-CITY.

What MIR. Davis has Done for Years at
Kittrelps can be Done In Our Own
City on a much Grander Scale.
The Lynchburg papers are advocat-
ing the erection of a Suburban Hotel
for summer visitors. The Vsrgimsan
says on this subject:
The idea of a summer hotel in the
neighborhood of Lynchburg has long
been discussed. Some of our shrewd-
est business citizens believe it would
prove paying investment, and be a
decided benefit to the city. We heard
one of them remark the other day
that he did not doubt it could be filled
throughout the summer to its fullest
capacity.
Such hotel in the vicinity of the
city would also be comfort and con-
venience to our own people. As an
evening and night resort it would at
tract many of our people for pleasure
and recreation. Supplied with ball
room and music and refreshments and
pretty grounds and bowling alleys, it
would nightly draw hundreds of our
people from the hot town to its pleas
ures and pastimes. 1t would be sort
of "springs" resort for our stay at
home people.
But its main advantage would be
the strangers which it would attract to
our city. Many Southerners would
be glad to find just such place, near
city, and yet with all the climatic
advantages of mountain home.
This idea of a summer hotel is one
which our proposed Land and I'M
provement Company might take up
and prosecute with benefit to the city
and the company. 1t would be just
in the line of their proposed operations.
1t is probable that for the same ex-
Penditure they could not do more
good. We commend the project to
| their thoughtful consideration.
The Wilmington Star is also talking
up hotel for that city, on the order
of Capt Davis Kittrell's house which
| is thronged the year round with guests
from New England and the North.
This building has spacious piazzas,
enclosed in glass, and is equipped with
all the modern hotel improvements
which the experienced traveller is sure
to demand.
As health resort Winston has no
superior in either Lynchburg, VIII
mington or Kittrells. We are con-
veniently located, midway between
the excessive heat of Florida and the
cold of the North. We have brac-
ing, reinvigorating climate that has
been recommended to consumptives
and those suffering from pulmonary
complaints The aromatic odor of to-
bacco disintects and purifes the at
mosphere.
There are points of interest within
and around US, historical and other
wise, which would add zest to the
sojourn of any tourist. Many North
ern people have visited our community
regularly for years and declare our
climate delightful. A larger number
would be attracted hither if we had
just such suburban hotel as Lynch
burg is now clamoring for.
The Moravian Reservation, in the
hands of skilltul landscape gardener,
assisted by an experienced architect,
could transform those picturesque
grounds into place of surprising
loveliness. A lake at the lower or
Southern end, a building of the Queen
Ann order, surrounded by walks and
| drives, and embellished with lawns
and shrubbery, and an occasional
fountain or statuette, would make for
the Twin-City lovelier park than
New York has, unless it be the Cen
trail OF the new Tuxedo
The surrounding property, both in
Winston and Salem, would be en-
HANGED in value, and the hotel itself,
if managed by an experienced hotelist,
and extensively advertised in the
North, would attract thousands of
dollars into our community that are
now spent in the less pleasant resorts
OF warmer Florida.
The Wilmington Star, in the article
alluded to above, says:
| There is a hotel at Asheville that
charges $50 month. 1t is crowded
| to overlooking by Northern visitors.
| There is hotel at Kittrell that charg-
es $50 a month. It is filled from
September to April or May with